Oxford Reference Database & online history websites
- Oxford Reference This link opens in a new windowSpanning 25 different subject areas, bringing together 2 million digitized entries across Oxford University Press’s Dictionaries, Companions and Encyclopedias with results that range from short-entry, general reference to more in-depth articles on specialized subjects.
- A TIMELINE OF THE 20TH CENTURYIncludes History, Politics, Art, Music, Cinema, Literature, Philosophy, Science, in both North America and other parts of the world.
- Smart History
Smarthistory is the most-visited art history resource in the world and official provider of art history for Khan Academy. - The Art Story
Artists, Movements, Timelines - Met's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
"...pairs essays and works of art with chronologies, telling the story of art and global culture through the Museum’s collection." - KHAN Academy: what is art history?What exactly do we mean by art, and what kind of history (or histories) should we explore?
20th Century Art e books: general information, various artists, full access
Meanings of Abstract Art by Call Number: eBook Central
ISBN: 9780203126264The book covers three categories: classical modernism (Mondrian, Malevich, Kandinsky, Arp, early American abstraction); post-war abstraction (Pollock, Still, Newman, Smithson, Noguchi, Arte Povera, Michaux, postmodern developments); and the broader historical and philosophical scope.
The Triumph of Modernism: The Art World 1987-2005 by Call Number: eBook CentralThe Triumph of Modernism not only traces the vicissitudes of the art scene but diagnoses the state of modernism and its vital legacy in the postmodern world.
Conceptual Revolutions In Twentieth-Century Art by Call Number: eBook CentralISBN: 9780511632693A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened demand for innovation, and young conceptual innovators .... responded not only by creating dozens of new forms of art, but also by behaving in ways that would have been incomprehensible to their predecessors.
